Pastoral Resources

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.

I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.

Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.